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Kraumur Music Awards Announce Shortlist

20-strong panel of experts select their Icelandic albums of 2014

20-strong panel of experts select their Icelandic albums of 2014

It’s that time of year again, when the snow is on the ground, and everybody is getting very very listy. Kids are writing lists to Santa (or that evil child-chewing ogress or whatever the hell it is you write to here in Iceland) and every blogger and journalist is listing their favourite restaurants, moments, festivals, films, fashions and, yes, albums of 2014.

Not to be left out, the Icelandic Kraumur Awards have unveiled their shortlist for the best Icelandic records of the year. This independently funded organisation doles out support, advice, acclaim and cold, hard cash to Iceland’s best up-and-coming musicians, in aid of helping them to spread their wings in the year to come.

The award was set up in 2008 as a sub-section of the Aurora Fund, a charitable organisation that operates internationally to do excellent things like building schools in developing nations. But they like to spread the love at home in Iceland, too, so a will to help culture grow via remunerating deserving musicians led to the formation of Kraumur.

The twenty albums that were judged to be the best Icelandic releases of the year, by a panel of twenty experts, are as follows:

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